Enjoying the sheer performance of the new Mac devices with ARM-based Apple Silicon M1? You might have noticed or at least heard that Chrome is facing an error while playing premium music or videos on new Mac devices. Apparently, it is due to a change in the instructions from x86_64 to arm64. Some of the users are also getting prompts to install a software called Rosetta to enable playback with ease. Here’s what you must do.
Apparently, Google Chrome prompts users to install or launch Rosetta Installer directly. Once you do it, you will be able to play premium music and videos on Google Chrome without any hassle. This is a pretty straightforward method as you just have to install Rosetta. There’s a manual method available as an alternative and here’s how you can go through it.
Step 01: Firstly, open the Finder application on your Mac device. Step 02: Tap on ‘Go’ from the top menu. Step 03: Select ‘Go to Folder’ from the Go menu. Step 04: You need to type this code in the Go to Folder input box: /System/Library/CoreServices Step 05: Next up, you need to click on Rosetta 2 installer from the resulting files. Step 06: You need to follow the instructions as mentioned on the screen to install Rosetta. Step 07: Finally, restart Google Chrome and enjoy premium music/video playback.
What is Rosetta?
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Rosetta from Apple is an application that helps improve the compatibility of programs on newer Mac devices. Rosetta is a translation application that translates instructions from x86_64 instructions to arm64. In simple terms, the x86_64 instructions are executed by Intel chips while arm64 instructions are executed by newer arm64-based chips (Apple M1).
Rosetta is a transparent translation application that translates programs running on x86_64 to the newer arm64 which the Apple M1 executes. Rosetta also allows programs/apps that don’t support arm64 architecture yet. When running an application with only Intel instructions, Rosetta translates it into the newer arm64 instructions and launches this module instead of the original one. But translation may take some time and thus, users might perceive it as the apps are loading slowly which isn’t the case.
Google Pay is rolling out a new update for its payments app on both Android and iOS. This time the app will get a reimagined look and a slew of new features that make finance-management easier than ever. Google announced the news of this major change to its Google Pay app through a blog post on Wednesday. The new Google Pay app now becomes a finance budgeting and payment hub.
As per Google, the new app is designed around a user’s relationships with people and businesses. Its interface now highlights people and businesses over the transactions, which means the app will now group your activity around your friends and businesses. Available on both Android and iOS, the service is used by more than 150 million people in 30 countries.
New Google Pay is Not Just a Payments App
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The new Google Pay app is more than just a mobile payment solution. The app’s focus has now shifted from transactions to building financial relationships with family, friends, and businesses. Google states that it has turned the app into a one-stop money-management app. Apart from letting you pay money to your friends or businesses, the redesigned Google Pay helps you split bills, manage expenses, or find the latest offers from popular brands. There’s a lot more you can do.
The new changes that come to the Google Pay app also include a group payment feature. Starting November 18, you can also use the app to pay bills at restaurants, gas stations, and parking services in select cities. Apart from this, the app can now scan receipts that you can later search for by typing the name of the type of receipt. Further, the new update brings more security and privacy to the users’ data and transactions. Google says that it will never sell private information to third parties or share the data with other Google services for advertising.
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In addition to these features, Google is also planning to create a digital bank account called Plex Account. The company says that it’ll become available in 2021, initially limited to eleven banks and credit unions in the US.
MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) games have proved to help develop people’s cognitive mind with its demand to frame strategies and modify them as required. It even leads to bringing people together to form communities and work in a group. The tactics and game plans keep you engaged and teach you how to run errands with limited resources. MMORPG Games are available in abundance today but what are the best ones? Which ones should you go for that includes all of the prominent features? Well, fret no more. We have made a list of the Best Android MMORPG Games to help you out. Read along to find out.
List of 10 Best Android MMORPG Games
1. Black Desert Mobile
This is one of the newest entries into the long list of Android MMORPG Games. This game’s features include but are not limited to a wide-open world, options to customize the game characters, several missions, and quests to complete, online social elements, etc. The players get an option to choose from five different classes. The general features of an MMORPG game such as pets and mounts are also available. This game is a fine combination of several grand points of a typical MMORPG game while having minimum issues. Once you get the hang of it, a user may spend long hours dwelling on this game. You may additionally get yourselves free materials with your Google Play Points. You may also earn the Google Play Points via this game provided you are ready to spend a few bucks on it.
The Era of Legends is yet another new entry in the MMORPG game universe. The game is designed on a more combat-centric theme rather than the typical chore-based mission system. The player will find themselves amidst a large open world and will have a gala time finding and exploring things along with a bunch of other secret stuff. The game also includes a PvP arena. The developers have not forgotten to put MMORPG game elements such as clans and big cooperative boss fights. You may opt for the auto-play mode when you desire or switch it off if you are more into manually doing things. The game though has traditional points of a regular MMORPG game but still incorporates several points of distinction which makes it unique and has thus made it into our list of 10 Best Android MMORPG Games.
This game has been in the market for a long time now and has been an all-time favorite for many. Best suited for Android mobile devices, this game has an interesting approach towards its themes and plots. You will be led into a world of whole new different elements and stuff once you get to the paid subscription. Those players who avail the subscription get a map that brings forth several features. The game has many thrilling quests for its users and a rich in-game economy. It serves fantastically on cross-platforms although some may have an issue with the below-average graphics of the game. The game developers pay heed to the feedback received from the players and regularly keep updating the game to keep it at par with the player’s demand.
Price: The basic version of the game comes free of cost while the premium elements would cost you $10.99 per month or $99.99 for a year.
Talion includes several of the regular MMORPG game elements, which includes a large open world with hundreds of quests and massive battles of both orders, cooperative and competitive. It even provides the player with an online PvP platform. The FPS-style PvP game modes are a particular favorite of most players. One of these modes is Occupy wherein the player gets to capture a particular point and then shoot catapults at one another. The options to optimize the characters are exceptionally good and the storyline and quests are also decent enough. Moreover, the micro-transaction strategy of the game is aggressive. Players can even make progress without these only it becomes more time-consuming. However, this MMORPG game has the autoplay mode so if you are more into manually doing things then you should avoid this particular game and look for some other game from our list of 10 Best Android MMORPG Games.
This game is best known for its fast pace where players compete to show their dominance in a medieval-themed world. This game offers some really cool 3D world conquests with real-time actions. The entire gameplay is thrilling along with great graphics. It is all about devising better strategies and modifying them if you want to sustain in this game. Isn’t it what MMORPG players look for? The game is super engaging and feels life-like.
Out of all the games mentioned in our list of 10 Best Android MMORPG Games, Brawl Stars is by far the most played with almost 12,000,000 reviews on the Google Play Store. Although this game is not like our typical massive 100v100 PVP RPG games, the 3v3 game modes of Brawl stars have had players hooked on it for a long time. You will even get several multiplayer game modes while playing this game. These include bounty mode, the gem grab, Heist, Showdown, etc. Due to its crazy high popularity, you can converge with over 1 million other Brawl stars players and then battle against them. These battles will fetch you points which will then increase your chances to earn various rewards.
This game, in particular, is renowned for offering several lines of attack to its players. The player will be provided with plentiful resources and a map. You are then required to explore the virtual world and devise attack strategies to gain over your enemies. At the same time, you need to work on developing the skills of your character to progress high up in the game. The players need to use their wit to select their items of weaponry from the equipment boxes. The game will provide you with various quests that you must accomplish to earn reward points.
With a total of 473,000 reviews on the google play store, Order & Chaos Online 3D MMORPG is yet another highly popular game when it comes to MMORPG gaming. The players find themselves loose in the open world of Haradon Solo to explore. Once you go online you will find yourself among a community of hundreds and thousands of players. Get into the PvP arena and carve your way through the multiple play options.
This is a long-time favorite of the MMORPG gaming community and so was bound to make its presence in our list of 10 Best Android MMORPG Games. Do not let yourself get carried away with the 2D format of the game as it recently made its mark with over 1 million installs on the Google play store, you may as well imagine the high popularity of this game. It has by far surpassed all its peers with several astonishing features, weapons for conquests, and game modes. There are some idle RPG built-in effects, PvP support, and an autoplay mode that will keep you glued to the game. The gameplay is simple enough. All you have to do is tap and touch so as to grow stones. So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead, jump into dungeon battles with your troops, and hunt monsters.
This game is a masterpiece to check your ability to design strategies with minimum resources at hand. You are tasked with establishing your own kingdom and maintain close ties with friends to take on your enemies on battlefields. While forming alliances, your prominent target is building the most powerful and strongest kingdom in this virtual game field. There are four game modes made available for you. These are Dimensional Battle, Team Deathmatch, Town mode, and Battle Royale.
MMORPG Games require you to grow the game’s characters as you proceed forward in the game while earning cool rewards via various quests. Various plotlines that require the player to survive on minimal weapons make these games the best examples of survival of the fittest theory. Hope our list of 10 Best Android MMORPG Games will help you choose your game of choice. Happy Playing.!
Google Chrome is one of the most popular and widely used web browsers, and it gets better with every new update. But now, Google has announced a new and final Chrome release for 2020, and it’s bringing many new features, probably for the first time in many years. The tech giant is making Chrome faster, less resource-intensive, and increased performance through many under the hood improvements. Starting Tuesday, Google is rolling out three new features for its web browser. Here’s what the final 2020 update will bring to Google Chrome.
Improved Performance and Faster Page Loading
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As said before, there are three major under-the-hood developments that Google is rolling out for the users. Chrome now comes with a significant improvement over the years in terms of its performance. The new Chrome prioritizes active tabs vs. the other open tabs in the background. Google claims that this reduces the CPU usage by up to 5x, and extends the battery life by up to 1.25 hours.
In addition to this, Chrome will now start up to 25 percent faster and will load pages up to 7 percent faster. Surprisingly, all this will be done using less power and RAM than before. For Android, there is an improvement made to the navigation. Google Chrome for Android now loads pages faster than before while navigating backward and forward.
New Features and Improved User Experience
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The final 2020 update to Chrome brings a new feature for tabs that now allows users to pin tabs, group them, and even send the Tabs to other devices. Google is bringing another feature called tab search to the toolbox later this month. With this, users will now be able to see a list of open tabs, even when they’re in another window. You can just search for the Tab that you need, without wasting any time looking for it. However, Google says that this feature will first come to Chromebooks and then to desktop other platforms later.
In addition to this, another feature to make users do things faster, Chrome is getting an “Omnibox” to the address bar. This will provide suggestions to the user’s input, and they can take action directly from the search bar. For example, if you want to clear your browsing history, you can take action directly from the address bar. Apart from this, Google is planning to add cards to the new tab page in Chrome. These will help users pick up where they’d left the browser. You’ll see cards related to cooking, shopping, holiday gifts, or your recently-visited content.
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Google is still working on some of these features related to cards and says it’ll roll them out over the next few weeks.
The primary Facebook Messenger app got a huge update with a visual redesign and a lot of features. The very next thing you’ll see is that Facebook has released an updated version of the Messenger Kids app as well. The new app which now feels more like its parent app allows users to have a personalized experience.
First up, Facebook has redesigned the UI adding two easy-to-understand and dedicated tabs “Chats” and “Explore”. The ‘Chats’ tab gives all the contacts and their messages while the ‘Explore’ section has all in-app activities. It includes games for 2 players and more and other activities.
Facebook has added a swipe to call feature where kids can simply swipe on the contact to call directly from the ‘Chats’ tab. Personalize chats and add custom chat bubble colors based on your mode.
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Apparently, the social networking giant is calling these changes a ‘test’ without committing to it globally. However, TechCrunch points out that these changes are pretty significant. Thus, it is less likely that Facebook will roll back these changes made based on user feedback which is usually why companies ‘test’ their versions of apps by releasing them.
The updated Facebook Messenger Kids app is already rolling out across Canada and the U.S. on iPhones. The company will soon release it across other markets and device types and that could take a few months.
There are some key aspects that kids can check out with the Messenger Kids app. All the incoming messages will arrive on top of the inbox and will have a ‘bold’ annotation to signify it. Media and message previews right in the inbox allow kids to decide whether to open the chatbox or not. Kids can video call, take photos with a tonne of filters available on the app, and more.
Parents have a dedicated Parent Dashboard that they can use to limit their kid’s usage of this particular app. They can also set some controls. The app still takes a lot of data including age, gender, name, profile photo, device timezone, parent’s connection to the kids, etc. This is a bit of concern that parents have as it is not yet clear what Facebook does with the data. Although it is glorified that they use the data to evaluate and better their products.
If you are an avid Twitter user, you might have heard about “Fleets”. It is Twitter’s version of “Stories” that you have been using on WhatsApp and Instagram. After extensively testing “Fleets” in India and a couple of other markets, Twitter has officially released the feature for everyone. This was confirmed in a blog post by Joshua Harris – Design Director, and Sam Haveson – Product Manager, at Twitter.
Fleets have the same 24-hours ephemeral format you are used to on other social media apps. Twitter users can put up fleets on their profile for 24 hours and then, it will vanish into the thin air. Twitter extensively tested the feature in South Korea, India, Italy, and Brazil. They found out that people interact with fleets a lot and thus, the feature is now available for everyone and anyone who joins Twitter to talk more.
Users can share their opinions, thoughts, personal moments, ideas, and more with a video, photo, text or quote a tweet as well. Fleets allow users to express themselves better since everything you say will go away in 24 hours. People find it comfortable to share their thoughts and more on Fleets compared to Tweets which are permanent and everyone can see them.
Twitter users can now quote an existing tweet. Open the tweet, tap on the ‘Share’ button, and select “ Share in Fleet” and bingo. You can even add emojis or text with the quoted tweet without any hassle. Share your thoughts via text or videos or photos by creating new fleets.
People can check out fleets by everyone on the top section of their Home timeline. From scrolling up and down on Tweets, get ready to swipe up & down and sideways with Fleets, a new way of communication. Rest assured as these fleets will go away in 24 hours without any hassle. Anyone who is viewing your complete profile can view your fleets as well. They can respond to your fleet in the Direct Message if you have allowed DMs.
Fleets on Twitter are available on both Android and iOS. Two new features i.e. broadcasting and stickers will be added to Fleets soon.
Winter holidays are quite stressful, and during these times of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, things have become more challenging. To help you stay safe and getting you things done without any extra hassle, Google Maps has released hundreds of new features in these last few months. Recently the tech giant added a feature to Maps that lets users know about COVID-19 cases and related information for a given area. There are too many significant features in Google Maps that you can make use of during these challenging times through the holidays.
Get Around The Town Safely
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If you need to go out this holiday season, keeping track of the latest COVID trends is very important to keep yourself safe from the deadly infection. Here’s where Google Maps’ newly-added COVID layer will help you get critical information about COVID-19 right from your mobile application. According to Google, the company is soon rolling out new improvements to the COVID layer in both Android and iOS. In the coming weeks, Maps will show all-time detected COVID-19 cases in an area along with quick links to the local COVID resources.
Know About the Crowded Route Beforehand
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One of the most stressful situations while going out during the holidays is heavy traffic and crowded routes. Everyone wants to avoid heavy crowds, and during these COVID times, it becomes more important to keep distance. Here, Google Maps helps users keep social distance by providing live crowdedness information. Both Android and iOS users will soon start seeing how crowded their bus, train, or subway line is. Google has said that it’ll use the real-time feedback from Maps users to inform about the crowded place.
See Live Status of Your Delivery Order
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Ordering food from nearby restaurants and food points is very common in today’s world. To make this experience more helpful, Google is rolling out a new feature to Maps that will let users see the live status of takeout and delivery orders. Releasing for Maps on both Android and iOS, users will now know when to pick up their food or when to expect it to arrive at their doorstep. Also, you can see expected wait times, delivery fees, and reorder your favorites from the Maps app itself. The feature is rolling out in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Australia, and India.
Do More While Keeping Focus on Road
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Google Maps recently added the Assistant driving mode on Android, and now it’s rolling out an early preview of improved experience in the US. The new driving-friendly Assistant interface lets users easily do more things while keeping their focus on the road. It allows users to use their voice to send and receive calls or texts and even get a readout of the text messages. This feature is more important while driving as you need to keep the focus on the road and not get distracted by the calls or the text messages.
These four features on Google Maps will help you go through the holidays quite effortlessly during these COVID times.
After allowing organizers to approve knocks in bulk, Google Meet has added a new feature for its users that will allow them to virtually raise/lower their hand if they want to ask a question. The company announced the newly-added feature through a post on Google Workspace Updates Blog on Tuesday. Meant for video meeting participants, the ‘raise hand’ feature will appear at the bottom of the screen, which they can tap to ask a question or indicate if they want to speak. The same feature also allows a participant to lower his/her hand if they’ve already raised.
According to Google, the new “Raise hand” feature will help prevent people from interrupting one another in large meetings and increase participation without disrupting the flow of an ongoing conversation. Here’s how the new “Raise hand” and “Lower hand” feature works and how to use it.
How to Raise/Lower Hand in Google Meet
In large meetings with a large number of participants, the new “Raise hand” feature will greatly help in reducing interruptions and increase more participation. To raise your hand, click on the “Raise Hand” button at the bottom of your screen. You can see the position of this new button in the screenshot below. Once you click on this button, Google Meet will let all meeting participants know that a meeting participant has raised a hand. Also, the “Raise Hand” button will change to the “Lower Hand” button, which you can click to lower your hand if you don’t want to ask the question or speak anymore.
For moderators, a hand icon will appear in their video preview when a participant raises a hand. Additionally, a moderator will hear a sound notification if he is presenting in another tab. Besides, they’ll also be able to see all raised hands in the meeting participant list panel on the right. From there, the moderator can lower the participants’ hand or let them ask questions.
In terms of availability, the raise hand feature is already rolling out to both the Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains from November 17 onwards. It may take up to 15 days for feature visibility. Further, this feature will be available to all Business and Enterprise customers except the Workspace Business Starter and G Suite Basic customers and users with personal Google Accounts.
KpopTwitter is one of the most popular hashtags available on Twitter recording a whopping 6.1 billion Tweets in 2019 alone. Apparently, the engagement with these tweets rose 15 percent last year with K-Pop bands like BTS and EXO taking the front seat with the most tweets. For any K-Pop fan, knowing what their favorite band or band member does or doesn’t is crucial but that only means countless taps and swipes on the internet. The widget offers a cool way of knowing stuff at a glance.
iOS 14 is the latest operating system from Apple and it is certainly one of the most powerful as well. It has a plethora of features and widgets are one of them. Widgets are tiny floating icons with variable sizes that allow users to preview stuff on their favorite apps without opening them. Widgets update on a daily basis which means users can simply unlock their iPhones and have a glance at any updates right away.
A researcher on Twitter paid homage to the #KpopTwitter hashtag creating a great widget for iOS devices. This widget grants users access to updates related to the K-Pop world with tonnes of photos rolling every day.
Building a Twitter Widget for K-Pop
Daniele, the researcher at Twitter Developer Blog posted how he built a widget allowing K-Pop fans to stay connected.
The widget updates itself every day with images sourced from Twitter. The widget users “Tweet annotations” by deciphering the context of any tweet and uses the images attached with it to showcase. The Twitter API v2 users with machine learning models for tweet annotations. It uses endpoints like a filtered stream or recent search to get the best results that you want.
The researcher used 55.888105153038958593 (Music Genre – K-Pop) as annotation for the search query. Here, the widget extension states how often the content on the widget should be refreshed. Further, the OS takes the screen time, parent app status, and other parameters in mind to update content accordingly. Here’s the code for the widget that updates every hour.
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Using the results obtained from the code above, a Timeline object consisting of 24 tweets collected every hour is grouped. Deciphering the code above, the widget will update entries every hour.
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There’s no shortage of tweets on Twitter and thus, there’s no endpoint. However, the “.atEnd” object ensures that the OS creates a 24 tweets Timeline to start afresh. The WidgetKit ensures that the tweets shown are arranged as per the time and date of posting it.
The researcher uses SwiftUI to create the user interface of the widget for the home screen. Taking the image, profile picture, and name of the author, and use the following code to get the job done.
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The finished project of the widget is already available on TwitterDev Github that you can access here.
Samsunghas announced two world’s first ‘Do-It-All’ monitors that support mobile and PC connectivity. The smart monitors are available in two variants, namely M5 and M7.
Samsung Smart Monitor M5 and M7 specifications
Samsung smart monitor M5 is available in two sizes, 32-inch and 27-inch. The M5 features a full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) resolution display in both size options. On the contrary, the M7 sports an ultra-high-definition (UHD) (3,840 x 2,160 pixels) resolution display. However, this smart monitor is only available in a 32-inch size. The M7 also has one USB Type-C port for 65W fast charging and quick data transfer. Not only that, but it also has three USB 2.0 ports, unlike M5, which have only two USB 2.0 ports.
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Also, both the smart monitor sports a 60Hz refresh rate and 16:9 aspect ratio.
Apart from that, both the smart monitors run on Samsung’s own Tizen OS 5.5, have dual 5W built-in speakers, HDR10 standard support, two HDMI 2.0 ports, and VESA wall mounting (100mm x 100mm).
For connectivity, both the smart monitors offer Bluetooth 4.2 and Wi-Fi 5 connectivity. To connect smartphone devices to the smart monitors, it can be done using Tap View, App Casting, and Apple AirPlay 2. And for the desktop experience using a smartphone, that’s when Samsung DeX comes to the rescue.
Users can also make use of Netflix, Prime, YouTube, Apple TV, and other entertainment services without a smartphone. There is also Alexa and Bixby 2.0 voice assistant support. There is also Microsoft Office 365 support that allows remote access to all the documents on PC somewhere else.
The smart monitor has an Ultrawide Game View that adjusts screen resolution to 21:9.
Price and availability
The 27-inch variant of Smart Monitor M5 is priced at $230. Whereas, the 32-inch variant is priced at $280. On the other hand, the Smart monitor M7 is priced on the higher side and comes with a price tag of $400.
Both the smart monitors will be available in Canada, China, and the US only as of now. However, Samsung plans to expand the sale at a global level in the coming time.
